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I'm such a tool, just overflowed my tank for the 2nd time ever.. What about you guys? Come on, i know we've all done it.. Glad my place is all tiles :)

Righto, here it is as it stands, gave away a few more fish this morning, only a few more to go.. The others i'm going to house temporarily in a smaller tank while i get this thing established and settled in. I plan to have this thing 100x better then what it used to look like.. For those of you...

Well i got my tank back a few weeks ago (finally) and i'm not happy. Half my fish have died or been given away, and 80% of my rocks have mysteriously disappeared. Nothing has bred for over 6 months, and they are skinny and neglected. I have another small pile of rocks about the same size...

For all you foreigners, this is "Esperance" Situated on the southern coast of Western Australia... Just some random photos from my time down there. Hope you like the scenery.. If anyone ever comes this way, make sure you contact me :) Clean car after an 900km muddy country drive...

Howdy all, Been away for a while, my sincere apologies.. Things have been kind of messy lately, everything from work grinding me into an unstable mental state via having to deal with idiots who don't listen on an hourly basis... to a very messy breakup with my now-ex fiance who just happened...

hehe Just got offered a 360gallon tank and stand. Heres the good news... It's FREE. Heres the bad news... It has a broken panel. Heres more good news... A friend of mine has enough glass for sale to fix it VERY cheap. Hopefully I can hire a trailer and a few good strong mates to help me lift...

OK, So most of you know of/have seen my cichlid tank. If not, here it is, pretty plain at the moment. Now, i've just had a little stroke of luck. In this tank i'm breeding dimidiochromis compressiceps and quite successfully might I add... Heres the lucky part, the parent colony of mine have...

Just wondering what everyone uses in their cichlid tank for filtration, and how much? Reason I ask is I pulled my custom side drop air driven filters out recently, as I was having trouble with one peeling away from the side, and replaced it with a 2000 LPH internal. As I work away, I came home...

I'd just like to express my concern (and opinion) on the matter of requesting I.D's for fish, especially african cichlids. First of all, be aware that this is not directed at any particular individual, but rather the cichlid keeping community in general. As the size of the community increases...

Excuse the dirty glass. See signature for inhabitants, but add Acei 'Ngara' now. Hope you like... Then my dimi's decided to spawn..

Hey all, I am seeing alot of people referring to their tanks or reffering to setting up a natural biotype aquarium. I'm just curious as to what everyones understanding is of what exactly a biotype situation is. To me in general, it's a total recreation of an organism's natural habitat...

Been a while so I thought I would update.. oops, water line is a bit low.. Overall pics of my "Mainly malawi" tank Few action shots. Breeding in this tank so far.: Maingano, Cobue, Compressiceps, latifasciata, Other inhabitants: E.Yellows, "Chipoka" Acei "Msuli" Hope you like. Any...

No not another baby :P "Matilda" We were fortunate to pickup this elegant creature from a rescue organisation (Sorry poor phone photo) A 9mnth old pure bred Golden Retriever pup. She is the most calm, polite and well natured animal I have ever met. She is so well mannered she won't come inside...

not a question-just a rant :) As some may know I introduced some stuartgranti 'chipoka' peacocks into my nicely balanced mbuna/hap community. A small tiff between a latifasciata male and the chipoka male called for a largish water change to calm things down a bit. Well...due to that water...

Do people mix mbuna and peacocks? I imagine general caution would be a must, or is this really a big no-no? If so/If not, why? cheers, Matt

or good maybe? 50 gallon tank, no damage or scratches, stand, inbuilt side-drop filter and all media, air pump. $0.00 (Hey the price was right) *sigh* and I promised myself I wouldn't get MTS again. This is my temporary spare-males-to-be-sold tank, pics to come.. ~Matt

Few more far less then perfect piccies. overall central very proud of my yellows...intense our stupid cat after being "toyed" with by our 3 1/2 yr old daughter. oddly enough it didn't move for 3/4 of an hour - must have been comfortable. hope you enjoy, Matt.

hi guys, thought i'd kick this forum off with an experience question.. anyone ever kept Pseudotropheus demasoni in a community mbuna setup? i have my eye on a few but i've heard they are really aggressive, but with my amount of fish I have no particular aggresion, so i'm sure they will learn...

dunno how i did it. but, with the cheapest and nastiest possible camera, i've miraculously managed to take a nice/half decent overall shot of my display tank. If only the light area wasn't looking like a storage area, it'd be even better. tis a little cloudy, just cleaned the filter and added...

hi all. I've noticed quite a few people now who seem to excel in the cichlid field and also do not seem to participate so much in the "other" varieties of fish. I also consider myself a 'cichlidophile' and as much as i'd love to, know very little about the likes of 'the rest' of the types of...

yay, after 3 months of searching for someone who wants to part with some eleccy yellows i've found some.. 12 to be exact. and another 50kg's of rock. so now in my display, thats... labidochromis caeruleus Melanochromis cyaenorahbdos A. Latifaciata ps. acei 'msuli' c. afra 'cobwe' and D...

hi guys, any experiences with these fish? I've read about and am expecting typical mbuna habits, semi aggresive etc etc. any other thoughts? They are going into a well established community tank with: Melanochromis Cyaneorhabdos Astatotialpia Latifaciata Psuedotropheous Acei "msuli"...

hi guys, heres the situation. I HAD 4 maingano females holding. 1 spat in the tank, due to lack of room, 2 went into floating 2Litre breeding traps I made, and 1 into a clear hangon breeding trap. now...one has spit in a 2litre breeding trap, which now holds 23 fry, she is back in the tank...

Dominant Maingano male, Holding mother at the back (2mum to be's in 24 hrs) Fry pics, coloured up nicely now. Acei "msuli" Assorted fishies, Maingano, latisfaciata, some sort of albino peacock. enjoy, Matty

Nothing special, not going for plants, just wanted something bright and workable to put into a hood i'll eventually be building for the 100gal for display purposes. Light is a 3x 36w 4ft long shop fluro light i found at a salvage yard for $15 AUD all it needed was a plug and a lead which I...